Public Policy category: 4660 books
Planning for Public Transport Accessibility
An International Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Bringing together a comparative analysis of the accessibility by public transport of 23 cities spanning four continents, this book provides a "hands-on" introduction to the evolution, rationale and effectiveness of a new generation of accessibility planning tools that have emerged since...
Singapore Perspectives 2013
Governance
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This volume is conceptualised around the notion by Raymond Williams, a cultural theorist, that any cultural system comprises fragments of the past and the emergent alongside the dominant. The book focuses on ‘governance’ or how a society governs itself across the state, business and civic sectors...
Democratic Illusion
Deliberative Democracy in Canadian Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
The theory of deliberative democracy promotes the creation of systems of governance in which citizens actively exchange ideas, engage in debate, and create laws that are responsive to their interests and aspirations. While deliberative processes are being adopted in an increasing number of cases,...
Rethinking Development Challenges for Public Policy
Insights from Contemporary Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Covers topical issues for Africa's development, economics and politics of climate change, water management, public service delivery, and delivering aid. The authors argue that these issues should be included in the post-MDG paradigm and add an important voice to recent moves by academics and practitioners to engage with each other.
by Petra Ahrens
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
This book is an actor-centred sociological study of the EU-level processes that produce gender equality policy. Based on interviews and documentary analysis, the study unpacks the process of the “Roadmap for Equality between Women and Men 2006-2010” to explain the different roles of actors in...
by Joshua Newman
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Governments around the world are clamouring to engage the private sector in order to build infrastructure and deliver public services. However, the role of the state in managing new relationships with companies is often murky. Is the government a slow and wasteful bureaucracy that must be held at bay...
by John Diamond, Joyce Liddle
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Despite different legal and constitutional arrangements, in many states across Europe, public leaders are forging new collaborative relationships with non-state and civic actors to seek innovative ways of providing public services. Leadership varies between situations and contexts, but is still seen...
The Coming Age of Direct Democracy
California's Recall and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2007
This book examines the new, hybrid democracy that has been taking shape in California since the historic recall of Gov. Gray Davis and election of former actor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003. During the recall and its aftermath, California has reached unprecedented levels of use of direct democracy,...
Labor and Global Justice
Essays on the Ethics of Labor Practices under Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Labor and Global Justice: Essays on the Ethics of Labor Practices under Globalization combines conceptual and theoretical perspectives across a multiplicity of relevant differences, both geographical and disciplinary, to develop a transnational perspective on labor and justice. Through its multidisciplinary,...
US Foreign Policy After the Cold War
Global Hegemon or Reluctant Sheriff?
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
Since the success of the best-selling first edition, the world has remained fascinated with US foreign policy, not least because of the far-reaching consequences of the US led invasion of Iraq. This fully updated textbook follows the events of the past two and a half years including the 2004 presidential...
The Greening of Canada
Federal Institutions and Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Environmental matters have become increasingly important in Canadian and world policy agendas. In this study, G. Bruce Doern and Thomas Conway trace the development of Canadian environment policy, giving an in-depth account of twenty years of environmental politics, politicians, institutions, and...
Innovations in Culture and Development
The Culturinno Effect in Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
This book focuses on innovations in culture having the potential to drive overall development. It analyses public policies and offers inspiring examples of innovations in culture which solve various societal problems as well as recommendations for public policies. The “culturinno effect” (culture...
The World of Open Data
Concepts, Methods, Tools and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
This book discusses the latest developments in the field of open data. The opening of data by public organizations has the potential to improve the public sector, inspire business innovation, and establish transparency. With this potential comes unique challenges; these developments impact the operation...
Global Tobacco Control
Power, Policy, Governance and Transfer
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
The first major book by political scientists explaining global tobacco control policy. It identifies a history of minimal tobacco control then charts the extent to which governments have regulated tobacco in the modern era. It identifies major policy change from the post-war period and uses theories of public policy to help explain the change.